The decision, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, stated the right to legislate on moral grounds … and that there would have to be proof that a significant number of women would be harmed by the legislation for it to be struck down.*

*All this was heard in a fog, and the audio isn’t up yet on NPR.org. I’ll be checking that and editing the exact quote in as soon as I can today.

What I heard was that 1) legislators could take their moral positions on something as controversial as abortion and make them law and 2) that harming a few women isn’t enough to make the illegality of a practice immoral.

There will be more analysis later, I can promise you. Strong opinions apply here. But I want to get my facts absolutely straight before I launch into anything inflammatory.